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Free Resources for Students Learning at Home
Here are some of the column resources at Science News for Students that can be particularly useful for learning in the home environment.
Try It Out
Now is a great time to learn science by doing science. In this series, we take kids through real scientific research projects, showing them how to apply the scientific method to developing their own experiments. Check out the full collection of experiments-and give one a try!
Scientists Say
This series features a new vocabulary term every week. Want to know what an "herbivore" is, or how to pronounce "zooxanthellae"? Find out here. Each term is defined, used in context and accompanied by a recording so kids can hear how the words are pronounced.
Discussion Questions
Each feature-length article contains a link to a series of questions. These questions are divided into groups to be answered before, during and after reading to enhance reading comprehension. Each one is labeled "classroom questions", but they can easily be used at home.
Let's Learn About
This new series will present a handful of stories on a topic, such as exploring Mars or electric eels(电鳗), along with a link to some fun content from somewhere on the Internet, like an animal cam(凸轮). These collections are meant to help kids learn more about a topic in STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)-with a bit of fun.
21. Which column should you check out if you want to learn new expressions?
A. Try It Out. B. Scientists Say. C. Let's Learn About. D. Discussion Questions.
22. What questions does the Discussion Questions column mainly deal with?
A. Those about its articles. B. Those about schoolwork.
C. Those about language learning. D. Those about a series of experiments.
23. What are mainly used to present the Let's Learn About column?
A. Relevant recordings. B. Articles about STEM.
C. Scientific research projects. D. Question-and-answer interactions.
